ResourceSmart Schools Awards
Winners have been announced for the 2024 ResourceSmart Schools Awards, Victoria’s largest sustainability celebration for primary and secondary school students, teachers and school volunteers taking remarkable sustainability action.
The 2024 theme was Legendary legacies - what will you leave behind?
The ResourceSmart Schools Awards turned 15 in 2024 – so let’s celebrate by looking back at all the legendary legacies we've created together to leave behind a more sustainable future.
You are achieving great things!
Since 2008, more than 1,600 participating schools have together:
- saved more than $60 million on bills
- planted 5.2 million trees
- saved more than 74,000 tonnes CO2e greenhouse gas emissions
- diverted 168,000 cubic metres of waste from landfill
- saved 1.8 million kilolitres of water.
Timeline
2024 Awards event
Date: 4 June 2024
Location: Melbourne Cricket Ground
Time: 10:00 am to 1:30 pm
Attendees
This premier event is by invitation only, with all finalists, event sponsors, 5-Star Schools, delivery partners (CERES, Environment Education Victoria, and Eastern Alliance for Sustainable Learning), and government, state ministers and industry leaders in sustainability.
Prizes
Sustainability Victoria offers subsidies for travel and for casual relief staff so that our finalist schools can attend the ResourceSmart Schools Awards as cost-neutral as possible. Winners receive cash prizes for sustainability projects at their school.
Contact us
Please get in touch with the Sustainability Victoria Education Team to get registered and start recognising your school's sustainability achievements: resourcesmartawards@sustainability.vic.gov.au.
